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2010 Spring Talladega Sunday

It’s Talladega Sunday and mostly sunny here in Atlanta and the same in Talladega. Hooray! I’m happy to say the storms weren’t nearly as damaging as predicted. The only issue I experienced from the storms was a loss of internet connectivity. If that’s the worst that that particular storm system brought – it was a good day.

Kenny Wallace said what I’ve been saying. We’re both worried about Richard Childress. Shell/Pennzoil has lost another major sponsorship. Kenny said they have lost eight major sponsorships including Shell/Pennzoil, Holiday Inn, and Jack Daniels. Hermie said the conversation about moving Shell/Pennzoil started last year when there were issues with Happy Harvick and disgruntled employees and the race results weren’t great. Continue reading “2010 Spring Talladega Sunday”

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2010 Spring Talladega Saturday

All track activity Saturday at Talladega called off
Cup quals canceled; Nationwide race moved to Sunday

That headline from NASCAR.com says it all. I’m quite a Talladega fan and have been looking forward to this race since the start of the season. No qualifying means my boy starts on the pole – not horrible, but it might make it tough for him to dawdle along at the back. Of course, these days with Big Daddy being a Big Baby and Junior always being undependable, its not like Jimmie would’ve had a teammate to hang around the back of the pack with anyway. (And no I’m not forgetting Mark Martin, I’m just ignoring him right now.) Smoke and Newman tend to run with (or ahead of) the pack so they wouldn’t be options in the dawdle game. So it will be interesting to see what happens Sunday. Continue reading “2010 Spring Talladega Saturday”

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Spring 2010 Texas Sunday

The ash cloud continues…I don’t think Iceland has been in the international news this much, ever!

The rain is still making an impact at Texas Motor Speedway, but the jet dryers are on the track. The forecast is bleak for the Nationwide Race tonight, but the Sprint Cup race is a possibility. I hope NASCAR doesn’t go for the halfway is good enough. Jeff Gordon says he didn’t help as much with getting Kasey signed as he did with Jimmie Johnson and with Mark Martin.

I can only imagine what Pooh would be saying watching Hammond in his cowboy hat. He’s such a clown. It makes me wonder though how long this team will stay together on Fox DW and Hollywood Hammond. If they switch out Chris Myers – fine – but I worry they’ll put Larry Mc or Krista Voda in one of those positions and make it all painful. Fox has pretty much decided we’ll get you hooked, then you’ll stay, no matter how we change things. Myers seems to be an old fashioned tv guy, which is outdated these days. While I cringe at the horrible new tv folks with their untrained voices, I also cringe at Myers with his horrific jokes and booming laugh. There’s a lot to be said for the middle path – trained voices, not as loud, and fewer jokes by unfunny people. A girl can dream…. Continue reading “Spring 2010 Texas Sunday”

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2010 Spring Texas Saturday

It is wet in Texas today.  Sprint Cup practice has been cancelled.   

RC has spoken regarding the situation with John Wes getting taken out of the Nationwide car and Clint Bowyer driving it last week and this week.  He said Clint will drive it for the next four races or so.  John Wes Townley is still a development driver for RCR and is still employed with Richard Childress Racing.  RC says he is talking with John Wes Townley and his family and Zaxby’s and he wants to continue to have Zaxby’s on that car for the rest of the season.  He indicated (as did Bowyer) that John Wes was just tearing up too many cars.  That’s what he did last season, so I have no idea what RC expected John Wes to do.  Mike Dillon, RCR’s VP of Competition, provided a bit more information about the future of the RCR Nationwide 21 Car. Continue reading “2010 Spring Texas Saturday”

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2010 Spring Phoenix Saturday

I’m sitting here watching Race Day and getting revved up for the race.  I didn’t realize until last night that it was a Saturday night race.  Night races are not among my favorites, overall, but okay.   I was just watching Laila Ali and Carl Edwards.  Laila looks good and happy.  It seems the time out of the spotlight recently has been good for her.  Carl on the other hand looks tired, hot and aggravated.  This doesn’t bode well for his race this evening.  I think last night’s race took a lot out of him, bugs, wrecks, restarts, and all.

So this race starts an hour earlier and is 63 laps longer.  I was wondering why.  There’s been so much talk about shortening the races.  Kurt Busch, of all people, answered the question for me.  Apparently the sponsor wanted an extra gimmick, so we now have the 600KM race.  One good thing about the longer race is that they will have an extra pit stop so it won’t end up a gas mileage race, which is just ahead of short-track races in my book.  Tonight is Elliott Sadler’s 400th career start.  He’s been a part of the sport for 12 years.  Yay Elliott!!!  Jimmie said he doesn’t know what to expect, which makes me kinda hopeful.  Jimmie rubbed Chani’s baby bump and Hermie said he wasn’t going to talk about Jimmie’s glasses, because the last time he did, she didn’t like it. Continue reading “2010 Spring Phoenix Saturday”